In honor of its two main inspirers, the short name of the Academy combines the prefix of
Pythagoras with
the word
Academia (Plato's school) and is thus:
PythAcademia *

Because of its unique nature, and its foundation on the
EL culture of Ancient-Greece,
the special type of Pythagorean Holistic Tetractys Education provided
by the PythAcademia deserves a new name and is called "ELducation".

The Return Of Philosophy To
Improve Civitas Management
-
This short opening title, in 8
simple words, could very well be our complete
"Mission Statement".
Only philosophy, as
PhilosophEL, can ensure best possible education; Only best possible
education
(or: ELducation)
can improve civility and social meritocratic justice; Only improved
justice can
enhance civic and personal happiness through more impartial politics: these three mounting stepping stones
(philosophy, education and justice), form what we call the “Chain Of Best Civitas
Management” at the root of the EthoPlasìn Movement. The word
'Civitas' is intended here as the whole body of citizens
and institutions, part
of the
civic environment of a nation, a city, or a
community. As for 'Civitas Management', it is intended in terms of
managing both persons (for best meritorious education and
most ethical behavior) and
institutions (for best service and fairest treatment to citizens), but
as a whole,
persons and institutions harmoniously integrated together, as a
unit of
expression of the best meaning of what one can call 'Civilization', in a state of
Oneness,
manifesting a
civic environment of best possible Civitas Wellness.
The EthoPlasìn Academy
is a unique international university offering
Holistic Education
(or: ELducation)
as opposed to plain instruction.
It forms both regular university students, and non-student members, as Civitas Managers,
so giving them an additional qualification, over and above any other
professional qualification they may have, have acquired, or be acquiring,
training them as such, locally or at distance. Its special education
(or: ELducation), and its related discipline, are founded on the exercises, and
on the science of being,
of the philosophy of Ancient-Greece, combined with 21st century whole brain accelerated learning techniques. Ancient philosophy
since Pythagoras, and for some 2000 years after him, was influencing, and
ensuring, the propagation of the best possible 'Human Being Education'
(Tetractys Education
(or: ELducation): more below on this, in sections 3 and 4), and consequently the best
possible quality
of Civitas Management of all environments, be they civic, economistic, cultural, political, institutional or ecological. Ancient Philosophy was
in fact, first and foremost, the definition of a
"System of
Values
to Help Guide Human Living", that is to guide Civitas Management (persons and
institutions together) and, consequently, to help improve all environments, instead
of just a "System of Concepts to Help Understand the World", like
unfortunately modern and contemporary philosophy have gradually reduced themselves doing
in the last 400 years, in particular since 1968;
and it was both
aspects together, perfectly integrated. In fact, for Ancient-Greece, the second aspect
of philosophy (understanding clearly) was inconceivable
without the dominant and leading role of the first one (living virtuously), in a state of oneness. The
"System of
Values", the first aspect, that was the foundation of all good education,
and very
successfully so, for centuries, is entirely missing today: schools and
universities, let alone contemporary philosophy itself, do
not 'form', or 'educate' anymore, they only
'instruct' (and not always all that well...)
through the acquisition of knowledge. This first aspect,
the "System of Values for best
Tetractys Education"
(or: ELducation), is exactly what needs to return
today, to be spread like a bountiful 'Pythagorean Pollen'
[the symbol to the left], in order to
help implement best "Human Soul Education"
(or: ELducation),
along with, but
over and above "Best Brain Education", forming human
beings holistically, guiding virtuous human living, and consequently helping to improve all
human environments,
bringing about the best possible form of Civitas Wellness in the short term, and
an eventual world of EthoCracy in the long
run. This is the mission of the
EthoPlasìn.

In short,
the
EthoPlasìn Academy was conceived to:

FIRST, be a university that not only
instructs at university level, but also educates,
from a human and civic points of view, in a holistic way, on a Pythagorean philosophical
basis, forming all kinds of normal professionals who are also Civitas Managers,
from whom to extract an eventual crop of EthoCratic Leaders, and

SECOND, be
also an association of equally
formed members, from a holistic education point of view, of all nationalities, who
may not be university graduates but nevertheless equally support the work of the Academy,
assisting its worldwide Civitas Wellness Mission in the short term, and its pursuit of EthoCracy in the long run

The Promotion Of
DEMÔNE
Values
- (which are: DEcorum,
Merit
and ONEness).More specifically,
based on a clear
comprehension of what Ancient Philosophy really was, and in direct relation with
the opening paragraph,
the EthoPlasìn Academy's mission,
while forming normally its students at university level,
consists in also promoting, through the holistic formation of these students, three
civic concepts united like the triple handshake shown to the right:

Decorum - First,
the
concept of a new type of Decorum, based on real holistic "Education",
or: ELducation, itself based on the
EL philosophy of
ethics and virtues of Ancient-Greece, the inventor of both Philosophy and Education),
as opposed to the plain "Instruction"
being provided today by most
schools. This 'Real Holistic Education' ,
(or: ELducation),
is a type of Pythagorean
Education that should give a growing number of them, as future citizens, a
more vital role in a
marked return to better Civitas Wellness;

Merit - Second,
the concept of a special worldwide membership association that should help bring about a growing
application of the principle of Merit in all aspects of our society, if not the advent of
a MeritoCracy in more countries, let alone an eventual
world environment of EthoCracy, like Ancient-Greece
(inventors of Democracy and of the Olympic Spirit) really intended it;

Oneness - Third, the concept of
a Planet Oneness sense of responsibility for all that happens in the world we live in, in particular with
regards to our Philoecosophical values, as intended in the Physics part of the
inventors of Philosophy, a Philosophy that was, first and foremost, a
Science of Being,
before it was a
Science of Understanding.

Decorum-Merit-Oneness

These are
the three keywords, the
three fundamental concepts, of the EthoPlasìn
Mission: Better Decorum through a return to 'Real
Holistic Education',
as opposed to plain instruction, More Merit through
a better application of ethics in our society and institutions, and a clear,
and strong, sense of Planet Oneness in assessing our
responsibility with regards to oneself, society, government, interpersonal relations,
the world community
and all our environments, be they civic, economistic, cultural, political, institutional or ecological.
These 3 concepts pursued together form the 'One'
and fundamental EthoPlasìn
objective of the advent of best Civitas Management:

Better Decorum, More Merit and
Planet Oneness Responsibility

It is essentially an objective of Beauty, Kallos
Beauty, more Beauty in all aspects of life. Its 3 components also form
the Logo of what EthoPlasìn pursues,
unpretentiously but
proudly, from a civic point of view, as its

From the point of view of the above Mission
Statement, a fully trained EthoPlasìn member becomes a DEMÔNE(someone pursuing
DEcorum,
Merit
and ONEness). The sense of
Planet Oneness Responsibility of the DEMÔNES, from the civic points of
view of decorum and
merit, is expressed
symbolically to the right by the proud Knight figure watching over World
Wellness, itself founded on the Pythagorean Spirit. However, we are talking about a DEMÔNE
figure in the good philosophical sense of the Ancient Greek word (δαίμων,
dáimōn or
dæmôn), and not in
the bad religious sense of the modern word 'demon'. It means someone with a superior type of
knowledge,
discipline, skills and conduct, who can therefore play the role of a
benevolent mediator between the Human and the Divine realms, that is between the
real Platonic world of the Archetypal Ideas and the illusionary world of our daily
sensorial reality, for the benefit of
all living beings, and, consequently also between the more harmonious and the
less harmonious realms of human life, for the improvement in particular of all civic environments.
Demône has thus the basic sense of a capable and
protective guardian angel and mediator. Their symbolic representations and
idols are the Dioskouroi (Sons of God), Castor and Pollux, born of the relation
between God and Leda who, as mentioned above, became symbols of Ethics and
Justice in the history of the western culture. Two Demônes, uniting formally to help each
other, through a relation of love or friendship, swearing their mutual assistance in their EthoPlasìn discipline formation
and in their efforts to improve civic environments, form a pair of
Dioscures, be it between a man and
a woman, two men or two women. These Sacred Dioscurean Unions are strongly
encouraged and celebrated by EthoPlasìn. The
Demônes and Dioscures are then
also united between themselves like solar systems, formed by EthoPlasìn
Masters, each with planets and satellites, all collaborating harmoniously to
maintain and improve the environment of all living beings, human civic
environments in particular, but also
philoecosophical environments.

The
SWAN, as shown to the left,
with its elegant
modes, its neatness and dignity, not to mention
its unique strength in flying assuredly to its target destinations, symbolizes
the main EthoPlasìn objective of promoting and achieving best Civic Decorum,
most possible Kallos Beauty, and
Meritocratic Wellness. God Apollo, symbol of beauty, harmony, light,
purification and harmonious music, at his visits to Delphi, each spring, was
brought on a chariot carried by beautiful swans. Zeus (Jupiter), the top level Greek God of the Olympus, transformed
himself into a beautiful swan before the fecundation of Leda, leading to the birth of the
twins Castor and Pollux, the two handsome
Dioscures (Διόσκουροι
/ Dióskouroi,
as "Sons of God") who became Savior
symbols, for people or society in difficulty, and
symbols of Ethics and Justice in the history of the culture of the Western
World. The Swan and the Dioscures are only two of many EthoPlasìn symbols,
represented with more beautiful pictures in our page Ways and Symbols.

The first of the 5 elements of the Ancient Philosophy,
Fire, shown above to the left,
is represented in its flat geometrical net view, as the Tetrahedron, with 4
equilateral triangles. The four following sections are also introduced by a
representation of the other so-called "Platonic Solids":
Air,
Earth, Water
and Aether. This is part
of the Pythagorean Sacred Geometry ** on
which you will find additional notes at the bottom of this page.

The Nihilistic
MentalityOf Today's Social
Environment- According to the dominant mentality at the moment,
in our Western World, with regards to human or
civic conduct, everything is quite permissible, nothing is really bad, and any behavior can always be considered acceptable, or
at least justifiable, for a pretended good reason of the 'politically correct'.
Nothing really matters and whatever fact or action takes place,
as ugly or as bad as it may be,
simply forms
part of what 'reality' is, without questions needed to be asked. As explained in
more details in our Background Page,
it is for this reason that our civic world today is dominated by city dwellers who are proactively messy,
and arrogantly sloppy, by aggressive bullies and stalkers, by employees and managers of
coldly irresponsible conduct towards clients or citizens in general, and by a substantial
mass of individuals involved, vagrantly or not, in constant micro-criminality.
These categories all share Ethical Relativism,
sometimes called more simply Cultural Relativism,
even if it is really in fact a full fledge
Nihilism, as a common
'philosophy', or way of life, and they all
affect
the quality of
our daily living most
negatively. Their 'best' representatives
also try to make
us believe that nihilism is 'the' modern philosophy of life, that
we just have to adapt, be 'modern',
and, in advancing their opinion, they are so 'politically correct' that the rest of us feel,
most of the time, that
we cannot even raise
questions about it, let alone criticize it, certainly not
in public. More than tolerated however, anything is just plainly 'let go',
or ignored, with a strong feeling of complete impotence. Most people,
including the politicians elected supposedly to resolve our problems, feeling incapable of taking corrective measures or suggesting solutions,
simply accept or tolerate sourly this kind of "Dictatorship of Relativism",
living in fright and frustration, at the bottom of their hearts, but with a mild
face of politically correct do-gooders on the surface, letting this most disturbing mess go on
unattended, and worsening, on a yearly basis. While the last few generations might
have made an immense an undeniable progress from a technological point of view, they not only
failed to match the same kind of progress from an educational and
social point of view, but
rather achieved a serious regression, allowing the nihilistic deterioration of
all the values that could have prevented the current human disarray and civic
disorder; They trashed the traditional
Tetractys
formation, and consequently they over developed the "Intellectual Center" of the human being while
under developing its "Emotional Center", or forgetting completely its development.
Even in relation to the "Intellectual Center" they have been grossly
incomplete, neglecting for example completely the development of two incredible
human powers called Imagination and Memory. All this has caused a serious imbalance in human
soul development that is the main cause of most of our
problems today. In short, they concentrated on instruction (and not all that
well) and forgot
education (completely). This is the context that EthoPlasìn wants to
correct and improve.

'Education', in practically all contemporary
schools after 1968, was reduced to the
instruction of
the intellectual center of the students (and
often not even all that well), forgetting completely the
education of their emotional center, causing the serious imbalance in human
Tetractys formation that is responsible for most of our social problems today. See
also our
Background Page for more details.

Education, in the best moments of civilization of
the last two millennia before 1968, used to be more holistic,
(or what we call:
ELducation),
and include
the formation of the emotional center, through the cultural infusion of a philosophy of
ethics which was widely diffused in all good
schools, and was generating a related educational discipline based in part on the 4 cardinal virtues (Temperance,
Prudence, Fortitude and Justice,
as seen in a nice artistic representation to the right)
and in part on a strong sense of Beauty applying to both
personal achievements and social conduct. These 5 forces were being
supported by the sixth element: a responsive Love for all aspects of the created world
in a state of oneness. These 6
characteristics, or supporting columns, of the human educational construct,
were like the six sides (or the six equilateral triangles) of the perfect
2D
Hexagon (or the six sides of the central
Hexahedron, or Cube)
at the center of the Pythagorean
Tetractys (more below) which was the foundation
of the formation of the human soul, as wanted by ancient philosophy, as its
main purpose, before and over its secondary purpose of helping the
understanding of the world. Thus the meaning of
"The Return Of Philosophy"
(as PhilosophEL) in our Mission Statement above. Thus the
EthoPlasìn
holistic formation based on the Pythagorean
Tetractys. For more details, see our pages on
Description In More Details, on Kallos Beauty,
on Science Of Being
and on the Pythagorean Man Emulation.

The EthoPlasìn Reaction With The "Pythagorean Man"
-
Contrary to the current nihilistic laisser-faire, EthoPlasìn believes there must
be a solution to proactively redress this
destructive imbalance,
and comes forward with a strong corrective initiative through two complementary means: a
special
International University, PythAcademia (or: EΠAcademia*), and a
related worldwide Association,
PythAssociation
(or: EΠAssociation*). Relativism, or rather Nihilism, is certainly
no philosophy of life, not even a
'modern' one. It
is in fact,
by definition, the absence of any rule, of any principle,
of any leading set of
values or consistent philosophy of life: the negation of any guiding Philosophy of Life,
good or bad. The only way to correct
this situation is through proper holistic education
(or: ELducation),
that can happen, in an exemplary way,
through the combination of a special educational institution and a private
membership
association, both of World Civic Wellness Vocation. That kind of
special education
(or: ELducation),
includes,
in addition to the normal routine of university instruction, the serious
teaching of civic education and the pleasant inculcation of a
virtuous discipline, and philosophy
of life, leading the conduct of all students and associated members in an
emulation of the Pythagorean Man, on the basis of the examples and precedents of the best moments of history of
education and civilization:
the Pythagorean and Platonic traditions.
There is nothing our society, or the whole world, needs
more today. It is quite obvious, to anyone with common sense, that the solution to most of our
'modern problems' stems precisely from such reform where,
in particular, schools will finally get
back to provide real Education
(or: ELducationas opposed to
the plain Instruction provided today), like they did
quite well for
the better parts of many centuries, before the 1968 nihilistic revolution came about, in a catastrophic
way, with its roots in the Faustian Renaissance, to bring down all
traditional values, without even attempting first to improve them, or to substitute them with better ones.
This is where the EthoPlasìn project comes in to help, with its small but
meaningful contribution. This new kind of real holistic education
(or: ELducation), if well
implemented, will soon spread to, and influence, the political class,
"correcting the politically correct"
accordingly, lead to affirmative
policies like some of the ones mentioned in our pages on Lobbying and
Hot Issues in relation to Family, Immigration, Governments,
Politicians etc., and promote the propagation of more
Meritocracy, possibly even the advent of
EthoCracy,
in the world in general.

__________

The
EthoPlasìn
full graphical publicAcademy Symbol
is shown to the right. The Greek capital "P" in the
middle of EthoΠlasìn,
symbolizes the noble 'door' through which members enter the new world of
Civic Wellness (social ethics,
philosophical virtues
and philoecosophical values) that, as members of the PythAcademia and
PythAssociation, they become devoted to acquire promote and defend.

EthoPlasìn
is pronounced with the accent on the
final syllable, thus it accented "ì"
.

The privateMember Symbol (the
gold insignia at the top of this page, and also shown in a bigger and clearer version at the bottom of
our page on Ways and Symbols), is the
symbol worn at all times, in a
visible way,
by all members, in
at least one of its 6 forms (necklace, bracelet, ring, belt, pin or emblem). Its bottom part represents the 10 steps or grades of the
EthoPlasìn Rules of
discipline. The 4 Doric columns of Polykleitonian proportions represent the
Pythagorean
Tetractys (explained in our page on
the Pythagorean Man Emulation) and the 4 basic
Cardinal Virtues to be pursued by members, who
themselves are like strong and beautiful columns supporting the construction
of World Civic Wellness. In that symbol, the
Greek 'th' letter, "Θ",
appearing at the roof base level to the right, is the symbol of Ethics. The Greek 'P' letter,
"Π", is the symbol of the noble
'door' to access higher knowledge and virtues, and is associated with the "6P
Approach" used by members in facing life issues, as explained in our
page "Description
in more details". The 3 spaces between
the Doric columns show an ancient Greek "E" shape on the left
side, an ancient Greek
"P" shape (Π)
as the 'door' of the central area, and an ancient Greek "A" shape
on the right, meaning
"EPA" (in English), or "EΠA" (in Greek), as the
initials of the EthoPlasìnAcademy's full name. The various geometrical shapes of
the symbol all have their symbolic meanings, including the
Circle at the
top representing the high ideal of (civic) 'perfection' pursued by all members.
Its overall shape is an Hexagon (like the public symbol to the right, and
like the three main residential buildings on the campus, as shown in an
Attachment, with one of the "6P Philosophers"
sculptured on each side),
representing the Strength of the discipline. The two sides of the central
Rectangle
holding the 4 Doric columns are built on
the basis of the proportions of the Golden Number,
usually represented today by the Greek letter 'phi' (Φ)of 'Philosophy', appearing at the roof
base level to the left, and representing the Beauty and the Justice brought in
society by the life style of
fully trained members (as explained in our pages on
Membership Entry Rules and
Kallos Beauty).

Holistic Education
(or: ELducation), Leading To Civitas Wellness- Today's schools, and universities
in particular, only
have the dry instructional role that the dominant 'culture' of nihilism has reduced them having, and
no more a real loving educational role like the one they have had during the
best periods of civilization of the last two millennia. Our society today needs
the resumption of such a loving educational role on the part of more schools, the
only type of real holistic education
(or: ELducation),
that can bring back
the
DEMÔNE
values (better decorum, more
meritocracy and a sense of planet
oneness responsibility) on the part of as many
persons as possible. It is with this dire need in mind, and
as a constructive reaction to the negative
Background of nihilism mentioned above, along with the desire to substitute
the Faustian Man with the Pythagorean
Man, that
the EthoPlasìn Academy was
conceived as a new and unique type of International University of World
Civic Wellness Vocation. The Academy is a Charter School and has
a explicit mandate from its Charter and Foundation to specifically "Educate"
its students, as opposed to
simply, and only implicitly, "Instruct"
them, like it is the case with all other modern universities. The
Pythagorean World Center under
which it falls is a 'no-profit' organization and the PythAcademia itself is even a
'no-fee' institution for its well pre-selected students. The mandate to the Academy is to educate
its students as good human beings, and as good citizens, while also forming them normally as good
professionals at university level.

The
Tetractys of the holistic
human formation is shown to the right. For more details see our page on the
"Pythagorean
Man".

The Quaternion (4 levels) represent Body,
Soul, Spirit and Wisdom.

The six sides of the central 2D Hexagon, or
its six equilateral 2D triangles, as mentioned above,
were associated to
the four Cardinal Virtues (Temperance, Prudence,
Fortitude and Justice), plus Beauty and Love. These six supporting forces at the
base of all human holistic formation were lived in a state of
Grateful Compassion for the created world, the 7th force of the holistic
formation, represented by the sphere surrounding the overall Tetractys (not
shown here).

To be noted: with proper observation, one can see
that the 2D Hexagon in the central part of the Tetractys is in fact the flat
reflection of a 3D Cube, or an Hexahedron. The 3D
Hexahedron, or Cube, and its
corresponding 2D Hexagon, in the
Sacred
Pythagorean Geometry**, and also in the geometry of the Platonic Perfect Solids, represent
Earth, as the
place where the holistic formation of the human
Tetractys has to be
implemented for the benefit of humanity and all living beings, with the
related improvement of all environments; thus their central symbolic meaning in the
EthoPlasìn Project, and the representation of the cube, in flat geometrical net view, at the top
left corner of this third section called "The Project"; thus the hexagonal
architectural shape of some of the buildings of the campus and the hexagonal
shape of the main public
EthoPlasìn logo shown at the bottom of the previous section.

The Twofold
EthoPlasìn
Education - Studying at the Academy
is thus unique in that it is
formally twofold: after the first year at the PythAcademia, compulsory and
common to all, students selected to proceed with their free education are faced with a double duty. First, students choose a normal curriculum
of study and
follow that program in the corresponding faculty of the university of their choice, similar to what
all other
students do at all other universities; This is their normal 'Instructional
Formation' that can take place either at the
PythAcademia or at another
university. Second, students must also,
at the
same time, study the EthoPlasìn personal and civic discipline, at or outside the
Arium. The
study of this special Science of Being and their formation on the basis of the Pythagorean Human Tetractys, are
mandatory requirements
in addition to their regular curriculum of study, and
these educational elements are strongly rooted in the Exercises of
the Philosophy of
Ancient-Greece;
This is their ELducation, or their
special 'Educational Formation'.
This special Educational Formation, of the first common year in particular, but
of all other following years, is holistic: physical, emotional, mental, intellectual, artistic and civic,
not to mention 'spiritual' in its philosophical sense; It is also 'philoecosophical'
from a 'planet-oneness-responsibility' point of view and
'pro-Meritocracy'
from a
short-term political point of view, let alone 'pro-EthoCracy'
from a long-term political/institutional point of view. The overall effect
of these two duties and objectives of holistic formation conducts students to a
double qualification: one as professionals in their field of study, and an
additional one as Civitas Managers, whatever their profession might be. In addition, for those
studying at the Academy,
the
Campus itself is of the
ARIUM type, as opposed to the traditional classroom
type. This requires highly socializing facilities, with strong internal
decorum
and discipline,
where their holistic education
(or: ELducation),
is provided mainly on a Socratic Dialogue
basis, and mostly standing up, similar to what happened in the old peripatetic
school of Plato. In our page on the
Private Arium Area system, we
explain how, with the special Community Life Style of the Arium, the
Learning Process becomes a
Living Process that
in turn becomes a Loving Process for both the acquisition of knowledge and the
parallel development of friendship, in order to produce a better incarnation of the
intellectual notions of the university and the concurrent philosophical values of the
EthoPlasìn
Science Of Being and its Pythagorean Tetractys formation. This is the special human environment, and unique formation process, whereby, finally:

Better Decorum, more
Meritocracy
and a stronger sense of planet Oneness
Responsibility

A Selective Admission With Full Scholarship
-
Admission
at the Academy is very selective but,
once accepted and committed to its discipline, all students are educated on full
scholarship, as 'no-fee' students, with full
and free room and board, including full uniform clothing.
For this reason, students are considered "Guests"
of the Arium, admitted under the full authority of the
BeLovArium Foundation for
as long as they respect its rules and discipline and for as long as the foundation considers
their presence desirable at the Academy, or at other universities as extern
members of the Academy. The "price" to pay for all these free services is in
terms of respecting a strong internal discipline and in providing the equivalent of about
8 hours per week to help the Arium in various ways, like growing their own vegetarian food, and assisting
campus animals and people victims of civic violence hosted temporarily in the CivicArium of the
campus. In terms of money, students
at the Academy are only required to provide for the little pocket money they may need when
going out of the Arium, and there are even ways and occasions to earn such pocket money in
collaborating to various aspects of the campus,
both on the private studying side, closed to the public, and on the two
Commercial and Public Entertainment areas,
that are open to the public (The formal ApolafsArium and the casual
DiaskedArium).

Forming the Adonis and Venus of civic life
is the EthoPlasìn mission (Antonio Canova, neoclassical sculpture
of Adonis and Venus, around 1800. Canova was nicknamed Phidias after the
famous Classical Greece sculptor who lived around ~BC 450).

The Resurrection
of Adonis each year symbolizes the rebirth of beautiful Earth each spring,
placing it in the best possible hands (as shown in the lower part of the
first section)
for regeneration purposes, in a new effort to promote Kallos Beauty in all environments, including
in particular civic environments.

A Pythagorean Philosophy Of Life -
Before it is a University however,
EthoPlasìn
is first a Science of Being or a Philosophy of Life
based on the Pythagorean Man Emulation. Its Academy wants to be
Modern in conception but, at the same time,
provide an education firmly rooted in the type
of education that used to be provided by Ancient
Greek Philosophers
(or: ELducation),
using the best of both worlds: a kind of Modern Platonic
'Academia' of clear Pythagorean descent, thus its short name: "PythAcademia" (or:
EΠAcademia*). The
Academy wants to provide a holistic personal formation and
in particular
a harmonious civic life-style discipline.
While undoubtedly forming good professionals normally at university level, the
Academy wants first
and foremost to form better human beings, better citizens and better inhabitants
of Planet Earth.
Through them, it wants to improve in particular the civic environments where they will live
after graduation, including their
philoecosophical and
pro-meritocracy aspects.
In addition to being a school at
University level, EthoPlasìn is also a private
Foundation, a ThinkTank, an
Academy and
an Association: all these components of
the Pythagorean World Center collaborate to provide a new kind of
holistic formation, and to promote the related discipline and philosophy around the world.
The short name of its Association is:
PythAssociation,
while the short name of the university proper is
PythAcademia
through which the campus is mainly known to the public at large around the world. Members
freely impose the
Academy's discipline upon themselves and
engage promoting it through discretely being good examples of it. With its
special ELducation,
EthoPlasìn also contributes
in the end to the general improvement of
all
Educational
standards around the world, as opposed to the 'only-instructional' standards that are used at the moment by most, if not all,
modern schools and universities worldwide. Down the line, it contributes to the
improvement of all environments: professional, cultural, political,
institutional, civic, economistic, meritocratic and
philoecosophical, longing for an eventual
EthoCratic world.

The TEUC Cyber Club Of The Academy And Its Association
-
The
PythAcademia forms students intensively
locally on its ARIUM campus; In turn, the PythAssociation forms members at distance
while they study or work in their own countries, and it links all of them through a
private and powerful
EthoPlasìn Cyber Club: in fact, in
addition to having, to start with, a kind of traditional type of university on the EthoPlasìn
campus, the PythAcademia and the PythAssociation collaborate between themselves, and
with other universities around the world, to also offer best
supplementary
Telematic University teaching to all members, for
the purposes of both its Faculty Instruction and its
special Holistic Education
(or: ELducation),
and discipline. From
this point of view, the Physical
EthoPlasìn
Campus is supplemented, and extended worldwide,
by an additional virtual campus, called the TEUC
(Telematic EthoPlasìn
UniversityCampus), and this virtual campus is controlled, and tested, by the
physical campus located in the historical geographical area (in Greece, south of
Athens) at the source of the
EthoPlasìn Philosophy and Science Of Being.

The 'Victory On The Minotaur'
And The 'Civitas Qualifications' -
These two elements combined, constitute the fundamental
difference between the
EthoPlasìn and all other contemporary universities. They
are also, both, requirements in addition to a regular
curriculum of normal university study.

THE FIRST ELEMENT of difference is
the so-called "Victory on the Minotaur" through the development of an
equilibrated Pythagorean
Tetractys of its students, over and above the normal development of their intellectual center leading
to the acquisition of professional qualifications, which is what other
universities limit themselves doing. This
first
element of difference is acquired
in many ways and in various stages. The EthoPlasìn, as a First Stage, 'steals' one full year of the life of its students,
as their EPY (EthoPlasìn
Propaedeutic Year), for test and reciprocal evaluation purposes, usually at age 18,
or just after their PPS, between
the end of their pre-university schooling and the beginning of their university
proper.
During that dedicated EPY year, as fulltime interns, the PythAcademia initiates them, and trains them, in its special
Pythagorean
Tetractys formation, imposing them a discipline that leads to a better
knowledge and control of their passions and emotions or, in other words, to the "Victory On The Minotaur".
As explained also more extensively in our page on Description In More Details,
the EthoPlasìn does not form only the Intellectual Center of its students, like all
contemporary universities limit themselves doing, but also in particular their
Emotional
Center, along with the equilibrated development of their best physical and
artistic aptitudes: it provides them with Real Holistic
Education,
(or: ELducation),
as opposed to just Instruction. It does so under full scholarship, preparing
them for better university studies, and for a better role in
civic life, through their holistic formation based on a strong sense of excellence, decorum, merit,
cardinal virtues, philoecosophical values
and planet oneness responsibility. In an EthoCracy, this year of preparation,
the EPY, can
be combined to a special version of the
PPS (Patriotic Paramilitary Service)
done from within the Academy. Then,
as a Second Stage, at the end of that
dedicated propaedeutic year, the better
students get
chosen to proceed
with their university
study
in various ways, with scholarship assistance, while
keeping on, at the same time, with the acquisition of their EthoPlasìn Discipline formation at higher levels.

THE SECOND ELEMENT of difference, the acquisition of
Civitas Qualifications, is explained briefly in the second paragraph after the
following notes; of course, the two stages mentioned above, in relation to the
first element, apply also to this second element, mutatis mutandis.

The "Victory on the Minotaur"
shown to the right. (as well represented by the beautiful sculpture of Antonio Canova, completed in 1782, and now the property of the Victoria and Albert
Museum in London). Theseus exterminates the minotaur of the uncontrolled human
passions (a monster represented with the body of a man, and the head of a
bull in this case) and, by the same self-mastering operation, finds the rope
(running clearly and symbolically from under the dead minotaur, and passing
under the right foot of Theseus on the sculpture, indicating the 'right'
direction) that will lead him out of the labyrinth, or out of the
Platonic Cavern, that is out to the Apollonian Light of the best possible type of
personal
and civic life.

The
"Difference" between the
EthoPlasìn PythAcademia and other universities,
as a first element of formation, is thus
the 'Victory on the Minotaur' that students have to achieve,
mastering their passions, and following the rope of the gradual formation of
their Pythagorean
Tetractys, being led to the Apollonian Light of the acquisition of
philosophical Wisdom,
once out of the Platonic Cave, while preparing themselves as top professionals.
This victory however, to complete "The Difference", must be combined
with the
second element of formation, also unique to EthoPlasìn,
which is the acquisition of "Civitas Qualifications", as explained
briefly in the
second following paragraph.

Further down to the left, a symbolic view of ideal
Civitas Management as promoted by EthoPlasìn, in
the double view of a terrestrial city and its celestial model painted by Niccolo Polano
in 1460: Civitas Terrena et Civitas Caelestis.

Interns And Externs
- At this second stage, after the
EPY, a first group
is admitted to proceed with university study at the PythAcademia itself, still under full
scholarship but, of course, only if the students involved are interested in the few full
EthoPlasìn University Faculties available at the
Academy. A second group is allowed to do so at other universities of their choice
and, if there is a bilateral EthoPlasìn agreement with the chosen university, under full
scholarship, including lodging and uniform clothing. A third group is allowed to do so at other
universities with no bilateral agreement but only under partial scholarship. All
those continuing with full or partial assistance have to wear the
EthoPlasìn uniform, similar to what some military students do when frequenting
various universities, and abide strictly by its prestige, decorum and discipline. A
forth
group has to leave the Academy with no further scholarship assistance but
with still some occasional privileges, as members, when visiting, or
collaborating with, the PythagorArium. A fifth group of course
has to leave
without any further financial assistance from the Academy because they are
clearly incapable of following its full discipline. Some of this last
group are nevertheless allowed to maintain membership in the EthoPlasìn Association, with
still occasional minor privileges, while others get rejected outright, and
denied membership, because of incorrect behavior or obvious incapacity to comply
with all the basic requirements. All this is part of their
formal contractual agreement signed when
joining the Academy at the beginning of the first stage of propaedeutic
evaluation, during the EPY. Because of the very strict pre-selection screening process
beforeAdmission time, the rejected
students are usually rather few at the end of any given year. The big majority will have
wisely invested a year of their
life, the EPY, to harvest a prestigious holistic education, even fully free in most cases,
that should help them jump more easily into the best employment opportunities,
and hopefully influence the improvement of all civic environments around the
world.

All
EthoPlasìn Members Have To Acquire Civitas Qualifications
- This requirement applies to both students, Interns or Externs, and non-student members.
This is THE SECOND ELEMENT of "The Difference". In fact, both the
"Victory On The Minotaur" (the first element), and the
related Acquisition of Civitas Management Qualifications (the second element), apply to all
members, subject to loosing membership. The first common year of
propaedeutic formation,
the EPY, usually starting at age 18,
completes the Civitas Initiation level with the title of
Civitas Technician at
age 19. The following three years consist in a Civitas Apprenticeship leading to the
title of Civitas Professional at age 22. The following two years lead to
becoming a Civitas Manager at age 24. This is where most members will stop their
Civitas Training. However, with two more years of internal training, a
student
can become a Civitas Administrator at age 26. Finally, a Civitas
Administrator can become a
Civitas
Master at age 28, the maximum level, after ten years of intensive Civitas
Training. The Interns admitted to the faculty of Civitas Administration at the
Arium, and in consideration of their privileged internal training, can, and
should normally, become
Civitas Administrators after only five years instead of seven, at age 24 and
possibly complete a Civitas Mastership at age 26. In any case, with two more years,
all Civitas Administrators can become Civitas
Masters, either at age 26 or at age 28. Externs can only become Civitas
Administrators at age 26, after returning at the Arium as Interns if necessary, for
one or two years, after the completion of their study at other universities. The alternative
is for them to stay Civitas Managers while starting their normal professional
life in their chosen field of activity outside the Arium. All
these Civitas Qualifications are always on top of, and in addition to, a
regular
curriculum of normal university study. The approximately
ten years involved
to reach a Civitas Mastership are also closely related to the
Ten Rules and Grades
of the
EthoPlasìndiscipline. A
Student has to reach and maintain at least a minimum level of
Civitas Manager,
after five years of formation as a student. A Member
(non-student) has to maintain a minimum title of Civitas Professional
after three years of training, at or outside the Arium. These minimum levels are required in order to
be able to maintain membership. Civitas Managers, Administrators and
Masters are also often called generically "EthoCratic Leaders"
in honor of their
extensive
EthoPlasìnformation and
the expectation they could eventually play a major leading role in a new world
of EthoCracy. For the privileged
long-term students at the
Arium, the type of formation received in the
EPY (the first year of
propaedeutic initiation) is
replaced and/or supplemented in the following years mainly by the so-called "PythagorArium
Hour" (or PytHour), that is the first studying hour of the schedule
of each day at the Academy, discussing
various elements of discipline, and complying to additional disciplinary exercises. This
intensive internal training explains why Interns can often become Civitas Masters at
age 26 instead of at age 28. All this
is explained in more details in our page Description In More Details.
Hopefully, this holistic formation will
also involve the will to maintain a proud life-long membership to the EthoPlasìn Association
on the part of all members.

Financing -
Financing is also completely different from all other universities and rather
unique in nature. It becomes a kind of THIRD ELEMENT to "The Difference", albeit
maybe a secondary one. The intensity of the dual-training of the EthoPlasìn
students requires them to be psychologically free from any kind of financial
preoccupation. On the part of the EthoPlasìn, providing full scholarship
to all students at the Academy ensures its complete freedom of action for the
purposes of both admission and dismissal of its students at any given time. The PythAcademia is
in fact a no-fee auto-financed university, or a
full-scholarship university, for all its students. The BeLovArium Foundation of the
Pythagorean World Center finances
the long-term real-estate part of the overall project.
In turn, the full scholarships, and the routine operational expenses for all
students at the Arium, and for part of the EthoPlasìn students at other
universities, are completely auto-financed by the revenues of the two important Entertainment
Centers of the ARIUM
open to the public, on a competitive commercial basis, on the Mediterranean seaside:
the smaller and more formal Enjoyment Center
(the ApolafsArium), and the bigger and more casual
Amusement Center (the DiaskedArium). A brief description of these 3
financing components (BeLovArium, ApolafsArium
and DiaskedArium) is given in the
Campus Componentssection,
further down on this page.

As seen above, the first common year
of propaedeutic formation mentioned above, the
EPY, also called the
year of "Civitas Initiation", fully dedicated to the
EthoPlasìn discipline, based on the
Pythagorean Human Tetractys, is symbolized by the
Myth of Theseus And the Minotaur.

In turn, the success of the comprehensive
formation, leading to the years
of "Civitas Mastership", when members finally get
their "Civitas Master" title (in addition to their regular
university degree), is symbolized by the crown of gold
laurels, a history-long symbol of Human Excellence (example shown to the right).
An eventual critical mass of 'Civitas Managers'
and 'Civitas Professionals' is expected to influence the
advent of at least more Meritocracy in the short
term, and an eventual world of EthoCracy as a
long term objective.

The
Worldwide Improvement Of Personal, Family And Civic Life - In short, the main EthoPlasìn objective is to form members
who, while being highly qualified workers or professionals, and after having received
a special human formation on the basis of the
Pythagorean Tetractys
and Platonic Philosophy in Ethics,
Aesthetics and Politics, will
also want, and be able, at the same time, to pursue the spreading of better
Decorum, more
Meritocracy and the improvement of all Civic and Philoecosophical
environments around the world. It is essentially an objective of Beauty:
personal beauty, civic beauty and overall
Kallos Beauty in all aspects of life. To achieve this objective,
Students who will have graduated at the PythAcademia, or
elsewhere under its scholarship, will always be limited in
number but,
Members at large, trained at distance by the
PythAssociation, can quickly become thousands, if not millions, with the two categories contributing,
all together, each their own way, to this important objective for the new
generations of the third millennium. These together, students and members, may
be able to build the "Critical Mass" necessary to
spark the development of a new EthoCracy, or at
least certainly a better Meritocracy, based on
the
DEMÔNE values (Better
Decorum, More Merit and
Oneness Responsibility at Planet Earth Level). The nature of that "Critical
Mass" will be essentially one of "BeLovArium"
(the name of the foundation behind the Academy, the body that formulated the
Ten Grades of the EthoPlasìn
Discipline), creating a critical space, or "Arium", filled with the "Belief"
in the above objectives and the "Love"
of each member for oneself, the humanity, the planet Earth and the Universe, in
pursuing these same objectives. Seen from another point of view, the increase of
this "Critical Mass" will be built and weighted in terms of a growing number of
Pythagorean Man type of individuals
in our society, and a corresponding diminishing number of the "Faustian Man"
types, from a civic and ethical points of view.

The Critical Mass And The Domino
Effect- In addition, the
Good Example and success
of the EthoPlasìn Academy, with the force of the Critical
Mass of its members around the world, is expected to have a inevitable
and significant Domino Effect
on a growing number of schools in a growing number of countries. These other
institutions might
not adopt a discipline as strict as the EthoPlasìn, but nevertheless start to
integrate to their programs important elements of civic, meritocratic and
philoecosophical education and discipline that have been
completely ignored or grossly neglected in the last half century in particular,
gradually pushing, along with the EthoPlasìn students and members, in the direction of the final objective of improving all
environments around the world, let alone the advent of a possible
new world of
EthoCracy.

Both a Domino Effectand a Chain Reaction
of incredibly powerful and positive cascading improvements on all aspects of
our environments will be put into motion by the realization of the EthoPlasìn project.

The
Chain Reaction - The above Domino
Effect'between schools' around the world would also provoke an
important Chain Reaction of mutual help 'between school,
family and society':

Schools - If school improves, or education improves, and becomes 'Real
Holistic Education' (or:
ELducation),
in a growing number of institutions, influenced by the reputation and success of
the EthoPlasìn initiative, all our environments will start to also gradually improve, be they
civic, economistic, physical, ecological,
institutional, political or cultural, let alone their important civic,
meritocratic and philoecosophical aspects;

Families - If the
environments in general start to improve and become more receptive to the
requirements of real holistic education, let alone the schools themselves, families in turn will also have an easier role in
understanding,
pursuing, or at least backing up passively, these same
objectives at home with their children; Good Civic Education will gradually
return, finally, to be again "politically correct".

Society - If both schools and families improve their education,
and the environments return to request it as "politically correct", the overall
society will quickly make gigantic progress in improving proportionately all aspects of
the daily civic life of all of us. This is the meaning of the
Pythagorean World
Wellness and the related EthoPlasìn Civic Vocation and Mission.

The six sections here above
have defined the various aspects of the
EthoPlasìn Mission.
The Pythagorean World Center will pursue that mission by pushing for
Excellence in all aspects of the life of its members, in particular in
relation to their Civic Behavior, and by
promoting the phasing-in of
progressively higher degrees of Decorum,
Merit,
Oneness Responsibility,
Ethics, Kallos Beauty and Philoecosophical Values in our
society, with each new generation to come.Such personal pursuit, in the early tradition, was called
being a "Pythagorean Man". In the later tradition of
Plato, it was called being a "Responsive Virtuous Counselor"
(Αγαθος
συμβουλος).
In our contemporary world, it could be called being an "EthoPlasìn Member", or
simply "Being EthoPlasìn".Be it clear however that this
"mission"
will never be in terms of attempting to change the world, at least not directly
or forcefully.
This would transform a philosophical mission into an ideological one, which is
totally excluded from the EthoPlasìn culture. It will never be in terms of trying to push, or to force, people to change their
behavior. It will always, and only, be in terms of attracting, like a magnet, or inviting,
people to get better Pythagorean Education,
(or: ELducation), in terms of
reflexively promoting the related values, and in terms of members of its association giving the best
examples of them, in an attractive emulation process for those seeing them, as enthusiastic champions of these values,
in their own lives, as much as possible, in all circumstances.

EthoPlasìn members believe the main way to improve the
world, or to improve others, is to discretely
improve oneself and consequently put many others in a situation of desire of
emulation. This is the meaning of the famous saying of Ancient-Greece
philosophy, "Know Thyself", as the only source of knowledge for any
possible level of human perfection, and consequently the source of the wisdom
that is the only possible path to human happiness on Planet Earth. Trying
forcefully, or even only proactively, to improve others, is the best way to deteriorate
oneself, let alone the others. Consequently, EthoPlasìn does not try to change society, or the world,
through the global applications of more or less unconscious social policies, but
rather to give citizens the best tools to know and improve themselves, as individual persons, through the conscious
self-imposition of a philosophical discipline of merit and ethics. Members do not loose time with those who are simply happy complaining
about others, and unhappy thinking about themselves. At best, members give them
good example, and gentle indications about the right path, while they keep
escalating the ladder of Pythagorean self-improvement, in isolation if
necessary. Isolation however is only temporary as, through good example, many others will
eventually convince
themselves to undertake the escalation and, up there, they will also find the
pleasant company of many other joyful persons who have already reached an upper
floor, through the same or a variety of similar ladders, at a superior level offering new friends,
better opportunities and greater love. This "Critical Mass" however
will eventually, and inevitably, have positive cascading effects for the
construction of a better world environment. This is the "Civitas Wellness
Vocation" of the EthoPlasìn. This is "Being EthoPlasìn",
and longing for EthoCracy.

Being EthoPlasìn is very close to the
ethical life of the true philosopher, as described
by Plato in Gorgias (527BD) and
in Republic (500CD), from which we can extract
the following quotes:

- "There is no other life one
should live than the one which will clearly turn out to be advantageous to
the world".

- "Doing what is unjust is more to be guarded against
than suffering it, and it is not seeming to be good, but being
good, that a man should take care of, more than anything else, both in his
public and his private life".

- "The second best thing, after being just, is to
become just by being disciplined and paying one's due".

- "Every form of flattery, both the form concerned
with oneself and that concerned with others, whether they are few or many,
is to be avoided".

- "Oratory, and every other activity, is always to be
used in support of what is just".

- "Then, as a philosopher, let someone despise you as a
fool, and throw dirt on you, even confidently let him deal you that
demeaning blow. Nothing terrible will happen to you if you really are an
admirable and good man, one who practices excellence; then, after you have
practiced it, if you think you should, turn to politics. [...] This way of
life is the best, to practice justice and the rest of excellence, both in
life and in death".

- The above quotes from Plato's Gorgias are well
summarized by what Plato said in his other work, Politeia, better
known as Republic: "The Philosopher, by
consorting with what is ordered and divine, and despite all the slanders
around, that say otherwise, himself becomes as divine and ordered as a human
being can".

Being EthoPlasìn means being an ETHOS (or
an EthoCracy
Servant, in the common sense of a Public Servant but
for an EthoCracy, promoting Ethics and practicing the EthoDiscipline),
or an Ethocrat. EthoCracy is also often called
EthoKratia (often abbreviated as "EK" with the reversed "E" of 'Epsilon'), as above, promoted by an
EthoKratic Party (often abbreviated as "PEK"), with
words spelled with a "K" instead of a "C", for better respecting their Greek
origin as new words, as in "ΗθοΚρατια". An Ethos takes membership in PEK (or the political
party promoting EthoCracy) whenever
possible and, in any case, joining or not formally, promotes EthoPlasìn holistic
education
(or:
ELducation),EthoCracy public governance,
EthoSpeak
(with Katharevousa
as its master language and EthoGloso as its international auxiliary
language), hoping to become part of the best possible
CoPHLE Co-Creative
Participating Force, in a state of
Oneness, for the benefit
of all living beings. As such Ethos pray, after their morning and evening
Know Thyself EthoDiscipline exercise, concluding with the so-called Laconian Prayer of the
Palatine
Anthology [X108], addressed to Zeus, or to Apollo, but that everyone can address to his
own God, Internal or External, as quoted in Plato's Second Alcibiades [143A]:

We post this website mainly to attract
interest and suggestions, let alone possible candidate contributors to the
Foundation. Until the Academy is ready to go with its full implementation,
which will likely only be after the worst of the economic crisis will have
passed in Greece, if you have
any suggestion, or want to get in touch with the founder of the Academy for any reason, please use the
following email and Italian cellular phone:

IMAGINE...You May Say I 'm a DreamerBut I'm Not The Only OneI Hope Some Day You'll Join UsAnd The World Will Be As
One...(John Lennon's famous song: IMAGINE)

Distant recruits sailing to join the Blue EthoPlasìn
Realm of Pythagorean World Civic Wellness, dreaming, as per the words
of Lennon's song, that if they reach their objective, "...the World Will Be As One".
Contrary to what might have been Lennon's intent however, let it be "As
One"
like a beautiful mosaic of different nations, each with their well preserved
cultures, not like a nihilistic global melting pot, but nevertheless "As
One" in terms of
being all led by the fundamental principles of a holistic form of EthoPlasìn
education,(or
rather: ELducation),
and by an EthoCracy form of government,
hopefully also communicating better and more easily between all of us at world level through
EthoSpeak, as the easiest universal auxiliary language,
while dedicating more time deepening the perfection of each our own beautiful national languages.

This website is already accused, by many, of being the
beautiful utopia of a dreamer. Admittedly it defines a high objective that is
difficult to reach, and all but 'politically correct' in the present context of
rampaging nihilism. For the author, these arguments are only good reasons to
better justify its need. Its existence, even at this early virtual stage, will
mainly disturb those who already gave up, or even maybe enjoy the present
civic muddle; It will however, most probably, also encourage those who still have hope
for a civic revival, and for the advent of a new era of better social
meritocratic justice and wellness,
inviting them to take participative action or, as an alternative, or in a supplementary way,
invent themselves other useful initiatives that might be more realistic from their
point of view. In both cases the EthoPlasìn project will have had its
meaningful utility, let alone the joy its development will have brought to
its developer, dreamer or not.

Ελπεσθαι χρη παντ, επει ουκ εστ
ουδεν αελπτον

"Always hope, as no situation is so bad as to ever be without
hope"

EthoPlasìn hopes that humanity will be able to
overcome ethical relativism, through a better development of the human
Tetractys in its educational systems, to enjoy again its Pythagorean Demône
Values of better Decorum, more Merit and a constructive sense of planet Oneness responsibility

Once admitted at the Academy, after tough
selection, students study free of any expense, on full scholarship,
including full uniform clothing. In fact this no-fee policy applies to all
students and members present at the campus. For this reason, the Pythagorean
needs good sources of funds to finance the project. As described below, it has 3
financing source components, but operating overall all together on a no-profit basis. From an educational point of view it has 8
more components described after the financing ones. Finally, it has a main
umbrella container, for a total of 12 major components. It has however also various other minor components described after the
educational ones. The overall body
covering all the
various components of the campus is the PythagorArium (its short name), or the
Pythagorean World Center
(its official long name). The PythagorArium website is mostly private, reserved to members, but this EthoPlasìn website
can give you a good idea, here below, of all the
components of the PythagorArium. The page links indicated in the tree-structure,
under the description of the components,
will provide more detailed descriptions
of the various aspects of the
PythagorArium. Here is first a brief description of
the 12 PythagorArium components.

ONE FOUNDATION COMPONENT FOR LONG-TERM STRUCTURAL FINANCING

BeLovArium
- This is the Foundation behind the
PythagorArium. BeLovArium acts as the
main financial authority for
the overall project, but on a no-profit basis. The Foundation provides only the essential
initial and long term real estate financing for the overall project and its
eventual structural maintenance and expansion. To assist itself for current
expenses to be paid on a self-financing basis, BeLovArium operates two
commercial recreational centers. As seen below, the first one (ApolafsArium)
is a smaller one, attached to the Academy, and with a rather formal
environment for the entertainment of well dressed people and the training of
the EthoPlasìn students in various aspects of social decorum. The second one
is a bigger one (DiaskedArium), detached from the Academy, a few kilometers
more to the south, and with a normal casual environment for the public at
large. BeLovArium has three elements in its name:
Belief, Love and
Arium. The first element is indicated by the initial 'Be'
of the name, meaning 'Belief', but
intended strictly in a philosophical mental way, and not in any religious way.
The second element is 'Love', but
also intended in its real philosophical platonic way. The third element, 'Arium',
means a dedicated living area associated with a specified function, as a
place where interested people live, gather and take care of that function. Thus the full name of the
Foundation:
BeLovArium.
From this point of view, EthoPlasìn is an Academy and International University that provides a holistic
education
(or: ELducation),
founded on Belief and Love intended in their Ancient-Greece philosophical sense,
through a unique formation process called the
Pythagorean
Man Emulation. This formation is done through a special discipline for the
best performance of the Pythagorean
Tetractys, and consequently the
acquisition of Civitas Qualifications and Philosophical Wisdom, put at the service of the... Arium,
that is put at the service of civic environments where people live.

TWO ENTERTAINMENT COMPONENTS FOR CURRENT EXPENSES
SELF-FINANCING

ApolafsArium
- The ApolafsArium is the small Public Entertainment Compound,
as the "Enjoyment Compound", attached
directly to the Campus. It
is a rather formal entertainment area open only to people with proper city
clothing (the following paragraph will talk about a similar entertainment
area, the DiaskedArium, much bigger in size and open to people with casual
clothing). Men can only
come in with jacket, tie and long trousers; Women with only dresses or
skirts and no trousers. No jeans allowed. At these conditions, and on a booking
basis, this semi-private area is open to the general public for entertainment through cultural and recreational activities, including
limited pool and sea swimming. The ApolafsArium also serves as a
training area for the EthoPlasìn students in various aspects of etiquette,
protocol and social
decorum. EthoPlasìn students for example regularly serve as formal
waiters, dressing tables and serving food elegantly with white gloves added
to their regular full uniform. Many of them also often give short recitals of their music
or singing talents in front of clients. Otherwise the music
of ambiance is of the light harmonic classical type, or beautiful arias of opera. The
food served is strictly vegetarian albeit of the best level and quality
produced biologically on the campus. The word 'Apolafsy' ("απόλαυση"),
means something like 'Pure enjoyment, of both body and soul
together' through recreation or various other
joyful and rewarding activities. Because of the difficulty of its Greek-root
name, members of the
public sometimes call it the "EnjoymentArium".The ApolafsArium also includes
the AgorArium with two stores, a small one on the
private studying side and two more important ones on the public recreational side where
its honey, its plants and its symbol stones can be acquired as souvenirs or
gifts of good wishes. It also includes a small ThalasArium with
SPA, swimming pools and
limited sea gym entertainment
activities. It has its own small HotelArium (matching more formally the casual HostelArium of
the following DiaskedArium) and RefectArium
(matching again more formally the casual CafetArium of the following
DiaskedArium). Finally there are two important components that serve to
expose to the public the talent of its students and members. There is first the
ArenArium
that serves in particular as the arena for demonstrations and training in
EthoJudo, but also
for various kinds of other shows where students can expose their skills,
talents and life style to the public. Then there is the MusicArium that does the same thing specifically for
classical music talent and choir recitals. These regular shows are in fact an
important attraction factor for the public at large to come to the
ApolafsArium instead of to the DiaskedArium for entertainment purposes as
they can be combined, either free or for a minimal additional charge, to
typical visits of clients coming in for elegant dining or other
entertainment of essentially a good cultural nature. The ArenArium also serves to bring in
a wide public at the occasion of the annual graduation ceremony, and the
grand dancing ball following it, on an invitation or a booking basis. See the
Attachments section below for an outline of the Campus and focus on
the left part of the plan which is the Public side.

Café-Restaurant
around a pool, with a view on the sea. This is the typical kind of attraction
offered on the public
side of the Campus which is meant to be a tool of self-financing of the
Academy in the long run for its current expenses.

The two recreational and entertainment sites open to the public, the formal
ApolafsArium and the casual DiaskedArium, separated by a few kilometers
of coastline, are united by both water (a circuit of sportive canoes and other paddle or sail boats) and by land (a
private circuit of electrical mini-bus service) to help clients move easily between
one and the other.

DiaskedArium
- The DiaskedArium is the second public entertainment or "Recreational
Compound", as the "Amusement Compound"
this time, detached a few kilometers from the campus. Because of the
difficulty of its Greek-root name, it is often called more simply the
AmusementArium. It is similar to the "Enjoyment
Compound", but much bigger in size and, this time, in a non formal environment. In fact, it has a completely
casual environment open to the general public for sophisticated recreational
activities without preoccupation at the entrance for the way they dress.
Thus the name DiaskedArium, as 'Diaskedasi' ("διασκέδαση")
means amusement, or plain fun, as opposed to 'Enjoyment' like in the case of
the ApolafsArium mentioned in the previous paragraph. The DiaskedArium however includes
all the same sub-components of the ApolafsArium, like the
HostelArium, the
CafetArium and the
ThalasAriumSPA, but in a completely informal environment
and in a larger scale.
In fact, the
DiaskedArium is much bigger and includes two normal hotels and two
special ones: the HostelArium with cheaper rooms (with partial self room
service and common bathroom facilities), and the CapsulArium with even cheaper capsule space for
quiet night sleep. Clients can thus rent rooms of various types, by the hour
or by the night. These go from normal hotel rooms (standard to luxury) to
small public dormitories called DormitArium,
for groups of 5 to 25 people, not to mention again the individual capsule
rooms for the cheapest possible overnight stay. These accommodation
facilities are surrounded by a more complete CafetArium
area than the one at the ApolafsArium, with first-class restaurants,
cafeterias, a beautiful open-sky coffee-bar all around an
apposite pool
with a direct view on the sea, and an adjacent closed tea-room. Contrary to the ApolafsArium, no booking is required for entrance in this case. Anyone
can come in freely to enjoy even things as simple as a single cup of coffee, or a
piece of cake, in the coffee-shops, or on the many terraces in front of the sea,
in the shade or in the sun, or rent a long chair on the
beach and swim at will. At their choice, and in addition to what the formal ApolafsArium can
offer, they can also enjoy practicing the many sports of the big
ArenArium, like tennis, squash,
basket, jogging, including practically unlimited pool and beach or sea sports. The
DiaskedArium even includes a CinemArium
with many size projection rooms, and even an open-sky
room, for evening shows, with good weather and with comfortable seats
equipped with individual small tables to order food to be consumed during
the film projections. It has at its side a MusicArium but, this time, reserved for disco music during
late evenings, and light classical music during the day time. The DiaskedArium includes a
PlanetArium for star observation in various ways,
and an accompanying MeditArium
for meditation, in complete isolation or in company, with some rooms with an
open-sky deck for night stars admiration while meditating.

EIGHT EDUCATIONAL COMPONENTS

PythAcademia -
The PythAcademia is the short name of the University
proper or, as per its full name, the EthoPlasìn
Academy. Its students live in a reserved area called globally the
ARIUM, with strict hours and a severe internal discipline, sleeping in
dormitories, with no visits being allowed, in or out, from Monday to Friday:
the AndrArium for males and the
GynecArium
for females. They thus receive modern Arium
Education, essentially on a "Socratic
Dialogue" basis,
as opposed to traditional Classroom Education. To their normal curriculum of
study, in exchange for their full scholarships, they mustfreely and
willingly
integrate the elements of a very special discipline meant to educate them as
better human beings, better citizens and better inhabitants of Planet Earth, as opposed to only as
knowledgeable
professionals, like all other modern universities do today worldwide.
Students must also give some hours (about 8 hours per week) to help grow
their own vegetarian food and take care of the animals of the campus and the
persons victims of civic violence hosted in the CivicArium.
The PythAcademia itself issues normal and
full university degrees in loco, albeit in a
limited number of subject matters (see our page on
EthoPlasìn Faculties).
However, it can also issue university degrees in just about
any other subject matter, in collaboration with other universities with which it has developed
bilateral agreements, maintaining its students under scholarship at these
other universities. For some of these degrees it
also works from the campus, but online and in close touch with the faculties of these foreign
universities, combining local and telematics facilities into a holistic
formation process. As mentioned above, the special EthoPlasìn educational discipline is a mandatory requirement
in addition to the regular students' curriculum
of study and is strongly rooted in the Philosophical Exercises of Ancient
Greece Philosophy. An EthoPlasìn Graduate is thus a fully qualified
professional, with a normal and full university degree, but with the additional
perk of Civitas Qualifications, in having also received a holistic
education
(or: ELducation),
as a person, as a citizen, and as a responsible Planet Oneness Inhabitant.

PythAssociation -
The PythAssociation
is the membership association that trains non-student members
at distance in the
same EthoPlasìn discipline. These members are not university students at the Arium and
they only concern themselves with the special educational discipline and
Civitas Qualifications provided by the Academy.
They get their EthoPlasìn formation while studying or working normally in their own countries.
They also enjoy some privileges when visiting the PythagorArium.

PythInstitute
- This is the ThinkTank of researchers on the Pythagorean Way of Life and
the philosophy of Ancient-Greece as a Science of Being. Every year the
PythagorArium brings in the best experts it can find in the world for this
purpose. Their research is guided by the LogosArium and their findings form
a potential base for the formation of all the teachers and trainers at the
ARIUM. These external experts however do not have the final say in training
and formation issues: the LogosArium does. Their findings can be used as such, or re-elaborated
by the LogosArium who has the final say.

LogosArium
- The LogosArium is the final authority in providing the ideas and the training
material for EthoPlasìn formation.
'Logos' can mean various nuances of things like: word, law, rule or concept. The LogosArium is the special center of
study and activity for the recovery and the propagation of the best of
the "Know Thyself" culture of Ancient-Greece, to make sure the EthoPlasìn has the best
knowledge and tools it needs to pursue its important mission of best Civitas
Management.
In other words, the LogosArium provides the
thinking, the leading
EthoPlasìn concepts and elements of discipline, for the
Academy students and its Membership around the world, in terms of
philosophy, science of being, discipline and World Civic Wellness. The
LogosArium has a limited permanent staff at HQ, but is fully assisted by the
PythInstitute ThinkTank mentioned above. You can also visit our EthoPlasìn page on the
LogosArium.

Salon de Philosophie': lesson of Ethics
(Engraving by G. Freman).

ElinArium
- From 'Ellin', that has the meaning of 'Hellenic', or
'Greek'. The ElinArium is a 'Salon de Philosophie' taking care
of public relations, general decorum rules, official events like the annual
Graduation Ceremonies, presentations and shows of various kinds.
The Salon de
Philosophie also offers a sophisticated variety of ongoing cultural and social activities to promote the
EthoPlasìn culture and objectives, along with Meritocracy
in the short term and EthoCracy in the
long term. As a direct consequence of this role, the ElinArium also
promotes the spreading of the Hellenic culture of Ancient-Greece, in modern Greece
itself and worldwide. Finally, one of its important functions is to make the
appropriate selection, and to assign two yearly World Prizes, of EthoCratic
values and Pythagorean
life recognition. The first one
is the PytHarmony World
Prize, assigning 3 medals to
the 3 members of the worldwide EthoPlasìn Association who have most contributed, during the
past year, to the spreading of the EthoPlasìn values and/or to the progress of
the advent of EthoCracy. The second
World Prize is the WACEM (World
Award for Civic
Education
Medal), to be assigned to three persons who are
usually complete outsiders (not EthoPlasìn Association members), as described
in the ACE section of our page on EthoCracy. WACEM
is the public external name of this world prize. Internally,
if a WACEM prize goes to a member, it is called the PythACEM World Prize
(Pythagorean Award for
Civic Education
Medal). The
two series of candidates, for both PytHarmony and PythACEM world prizes, are ranked
by the ElinArium and the 3 best
ones receive a Gold, Silver or Bronze medal, like in
the Olympic games, but yearly, and with a scholarship or a money prize attached.

AmilArium -
Students
must also
receive full physical education and integrate intensive sport activities in an
AmilArium set up with full
Olympic
Sports Facilities.
'Amilla', as the root of AmilArium, means 'Emulation' ("άμιλλας"), which is better than the word 'competition' in describing
the real spirit of the Olympics contests of Ancient-Greece. An Olympic contest was
often described as a "Polite Emulation", as a
gentile process of emulation of the best ones, their friends and idols, as
opposed to an anonymous competition. When students 'fight' between
themselves, like when practicing EthoJudo, they do so in a reserved area of
the AmilArium called the AgonArium,
as 'Agonas' ("αγωνας")
has the real meaning of hard competition. The three main student buildings (the
AmilArium, the AndrArium and the
GynecArium) all have the hexagonal shape of a honey comb on the
Campus map, as a symbol of strength. Students must also
appear and perform 'publicly' in the AmilArium in relation to their study of a music
instrument, and in group exercises related to the mastering of EthoPlay, civic education, meritocracy and
better interpersonal communications through
EthoSpeak
(with Katharevousa
and the international
auxiliary language called:
EthoGloso). See the Attachments section below for an outline
of the Campus and
of the typical daily ARIUM schedule.

CivicArium -
The EthoPlasìn also provides social assistance and related social
recuperation to complete outsiders who are neither students nor members of
the ARIUM. In fact the ARIUM includes a CivicArium with symbols and live elements of all
kingdoms: mineral, vegetal, animal and even human. It includes for example a mini
"Social
Recuperation Center" for persons and animals victims of civic violence. It has many gardens with
plants and animals of various species in its BiosArium
that includes a barn, a stable, a mini-botanical area and a hive. Animals
can move freely between all gardens of the campus through a set of
passageways and underground tunnels; Animals can even be used as good
company at any building on the campus on request, including hotel rooms and
entertainment areas on the public side. The BiosArium also serves a vital
function: the growing of all the vegetarian food of the campus. Students are
expected to collaborate to this important function a few hours every week,
and to make the campus self-sufficient for all its basic food grown in a
perfect biological way.

ErgosArium -
The ErgosArium provides orientation and
ultimately helps find employment for the students of the PythAcademia. As
such, from an orientation point of view, it is conceived as an important
educational component. 'Ergo' ("έργο")
means 'work'.The ErgosArium ultimately helps students to find work at the end of
their studies and disciplinary formation. In the meantime, it helps students to choose the best
university faculties and specializations for their aptitudes, and the best centers of study when they
cannot achieve their university formation objectives at the Arium itself. The ErgosArium also handles the
selective Admission process at the Academy. Considering the top-quality facilities offered at the
EthoPlasìn campus,
all free, only on full scholarship, and considering also the most sophisticated
and holistic formation provided, a strict selection process
was put into place to face the inevitably very high demand
for admission. Students can visit the EthoPlasìn page on the ErgosArium for more information.

GLOBAL CONTAINERS,
PHYSICAL, INTELLECTUAL AND SPIRITUAL

PythagorArium -
The PythagorArium is the overall Campus container of all components, but
more from a spiritual or cultural point of view. Overall it includes
everything, as a unified "Being", somewhat like a "Human Being", but more
like a "Philo-Social Being". As such it includes even the physical premises.
It is the central umbrella organizational body. Its full official name is the
Pythagorean World
Center. The campus is divided in two physical parts, side by side. It has a
Studying Side (PythAcademia) closed to the public, where students and members
get their education,
(or: ELducation),
free of charge, on full scholarship, and an internal
Recreational Side
(the ApolafsArium) with a formal environment open to the public, with top-quality facilities
and activities for sophisticated entertainment purposes. This internal recreational
side is matched by an external Amusement Center with an informal environment
(DiaskedArium), a few kilometers south of the campus. All components of the PythagorArium are
administered centrally through sophisticated services in a building
called the ATRIUM. All facilities have a beautiful view and
direct access
to the Mediterranean sea. The PythagorArium is ruled
on the basis of a Constitution and is presided by
the currently elected Grand Master in collaboration with
the other Master members of the campus. Go to the Attachments
section below to see a physical outline of the Campus that includes the
central Atrium and all the other components.

EthicArium - This is a
subdivision of the PythagorArium. This is the container of only, but all the
intellectual components of the PythagorArium, as opposed to the physical
ones, which are part of the EdenArium, for example the ElinArium and the
LogosArium.

EdenArium -
This is another subdivision of the PythagorArium. This is the container that
includes the land
and the buildings. As for the land on which the PythagorArium is built, it is a completely reserved area,
with entirely biological organic gardening. The area is also totally self-sufficient in terms of electricity and fresh
water, with plants and animals living without chemicals, on a surface
infiltrated with Diatomaceous
Earth. The area represents the closest possible form of a self-sustainable
area, as a "Back To Eden" area, of the kind
that can only be maintained by agricultural technology of the type developed
by geniuses like Paul Gautschi. As such, this reserved and isolated island-like area of Eden-like
agriculture is called:
EdenArium.

The donut Torus shape to the right represents
the beautiful self-energy of the overall spiritual PythagorArium and
physical EdenArium combined, as the harmonious integration of a perfect
Tetractys. In
that Tetractys, the body is the EdenArium. The soul is the ElinArium.
The spirit is the LogosArium. The wisdom is the PythagorArium spreading
around the world the EthoPlasìn education
(or:
ELducation),
defined in this website, and
the philosophy of best civic governance as defined in its webpage on
EthoCracy.

The VE (Vector
Equilibrium) shape it
embraces (better represented on its own, further down), is the
only geometrical form where all forces are equal and balanced. The
energy lines (Vectors) are of equal length and strength and its figures
are symbols of the law of "magnetic" attraction and repulsion. Overall
it is a geometrical symbol of absolute balance, like the overall
components of the PythagorArium and the EdenArium, attracting the
absolute value of Good, and consequently repulsing its opposite, the
Bad, as defined by the philosophy of Plato.

OTHER ARIUM COMPONENTS

The series of all the special names mentioned above, along
with all the new words coined by EthoPlasìn and used in various pages of this
website, appear in an electronic dictionary online, called the EthoPlasìn Dictionary. Here are some other important ARIUM names
not appearing in the description of the above components.

ManagerArium -
This is the short name of the Directing Consortium of the
PythagorArium. It includes the
12 Masters of the first 12 PythagorArium components mentioned above. It is not a
separate body as such, but a regular meeting of all the Masters of the 12
voting components of the Arium. The ManagerArium meets briefly everyday at 18:00 for
resolving all the current problems of the ARIUM.

MasterArium
- The MasterArium is the assembly of all the living ex Masters and ex
Grand
Masters of the Arium, living at or outside the ARIUM. They act as an experienced consultative body for the
current Grand Master. It is not a separate body as such, but rather a
meeting of the most experienced senior officials of the PythagorArium held for
consultation and guidance purposes when required.

DidaskalArium- This is the corps of teachers and trainers formed and living, or
operating occasionally, on the campus. It is not a separate body as such,
but a meeting of all the teaching and training people present at the ARIUM
at any given time. 'Didaskalos' ("Διδάσκαλος") means a 'Teaching Master'.

KallosArium
- This is the main representational building of the ARIUM. It is basically
the HQ of the current Grand Master and its team of closest assistants. It
also includes the ElinArium, the LogosArium and the PorcelainArium. 'Kallos'
("κάλλος") means 'Beauty
of both Body and Soul harmoniously enmeshed together'.

PorcelainArium
- This is a small museum as a special area of exposition of fine porcelain
art work. It exposes exclusively entirely hand-painted pieces produced on
the basis of the best classical tradition of painting on fine white Porcelain. The base
of this small museum is the collection of artist Vassiliki, a world expert
painter on porcelain, and concurrently the head of the ElinArium 'Salon
de Philosophie', as most of her pieces have been inspired by the
philosophy of Ancient-Greece.

AlogArium -
This is the special horse riding place of the BiosArium. 'Alogo'
("Άλογο

")
means 'Horse'. The horse is the main symbol of the ARIUM from the animal
kingdom. Students have a special relationship with horses. They care for
them and use them for both sport and rides of pleasure on the grounds and
the beach of the PythagorArium.

PythArium - A first
abbreviation of the "Pythagorean World Center" is "PythagorArium".
A further abbreviation of the latter, as a nickname for daily current oral business
convenience, is PythArium. In turn, the
full official long name is often abbreviated as
PAWCEN (standing for: PythagorArium
World
CENter).

PreEdenArium -
The mainland hosting and screening area that includes the DiaskedArium and
controls access to the EdenArium of the PythagorArium.

EdenArium
-
The offshore ecological and bio-diatomaceous land on which the main core of
the PythagorArium is built and where its students are formed.

N.B. - When requested, EthoPlasìn HQ will be
willing to provide guidance to all empathizing schools
wherever they are. The Academy is also willing to become a Central EthoPlasìn
Controlling Institute, at world level, for all the schools who will
freely request the negotiation of a formal association agreement with the ARIUM.
Such an affiliated school becomes an EthoSchool.

For a very short summary of the meaning and the content
of this website, please see the SUMMARY page under the relevant
button, at the top right corner of this page. For a more substantial overview of what EthoPlasìn is, reading the above presentation
of this Home Page should be sufficient. The
website however includes a lot more information. This additional
information, for those who may be interested, is presented in the tree-structure
of dependent pages here below.

>Jacques Drapeau, appearing in the
picture to the left, is the founder of the
PythagorArium. As such, he is
the temporary acting director of three fundamental components: the
PythAcademia (the EthoPlasìn Academy, as the International University), the
BeLovArium (the Foundation and main financial authority) and the LogosArium (the
philosophical conceptual body). A Grand
Master for the overall PythagorArium will be elected and appointed officially as soon as it gets to be
fully operational. On the basis of the EthoPlasìn constitution, the Grand Master will then nominate and appoint the Masters
of the 12 PythagorArium components who will form the ManagerArium (the Directing Consortium). The
ManagerArium will vote at majority on each decision, with the Grand Master coming
in with a decisive vote when necessary, in case of a tie, and also, at his
discretion after consultation of the MasterArium, with a right of veto
on any of the decisions
taken, even retroactively if a decision was taken without his presence.

Jacques is retired in Italy, as an ex Canadian career diplomat (thus
his choice of retaining legitimately one of his diplomatic titles, the minor
one, for convenience purposes, as Consul, because it is
probably the oldest and most universally known such title to the general grand
public,and also the title by which he is still called by most of his contacts and acquaintances). Jacques graduated as a
lawyer at the University of Ottawa. His experience of the world, and of human
behavior, is extensive, as he got to know well over 100 countries, and he lived and worked for years on all continents except
Oceania. He speaks 7 languages, 5 of
which fully fluently
and is an educated pianist as a hobby.

Jacques'
wife, Vassiliki, is
a graduate psychologist and a long-last adept of philosophy and, as an artist,
she is also a world expert painter on fine porcelain. As a kind of background co-founder
of EthoPlasìn,
she is the first-choice candidate to become the director of the 4th fundamental component, the
ElinArium (the 'Salon de
Philosophie' in charge of decorum and public relations) and the curator of
the PorcelainArium that, for the most part, will include the production of her own
collection. Jacques and Vassiliki have three university graduate children living in England, Canada
and Italy. At retirement, Jacques established his main
family residence in Rome, Italy, but because of this project (suspended
temporarily at the moment because of the Greek economic crisis preventing the
project to have chances to become self-financing) they regularly spend a lot of
their time in Greece,
which has been elected as the best physical and logical location for the Academy, on the
seaside, few kilometers south of Athens.

The EthoPlasìn
conception started as an idealistic fantasy, but this virtual project has the potential to
soon become
full reality, after the worst of the economic crisis in Greece will be over. At this time, the concept is well defined, the core land for the
Campus is available and many of its collaborators have been
identified and committed to the project. As shown in some of the attachments
that follow, the campus outline has also been
designed and its final configuration firmly established.

Only the commitments
for the initial financing of the project, in building its premises, need to be completed for
its full launching. Once it will be fully operational however, the Academy is well planned to be
completely self-financingthrough an
accurate exploitation of the commercial operations of the two areas of the
campus that are open to the public (the formal ApolafsArium and the casual
DiaskedArium) with all sorts of top-quality entertainment facilities for touristic,
sportive, cultural, recreational and social activities, directly on the
Mediterranean seaside.

A free horse to the right, running on the
seaside of the campus, as one of the EthoPlasìn
symbols from the Animal Kingdom.

Lavender field down to the right. Blue Lavender is one of
the symbols of the EthoPlasìn from the Vegetal Kingdom.

Fire in a heart form, further down to the right, as a
symbol of the "Hot Issues" dear to members' heart.

A beautiful tree to be hugged with love, gratitude and a
feeling of cosmic planet oneness, up to the right.

Three Lantana flowers further up
to the right as another EthoPlasìn symbol among
many others.

All the symbols of
the EthoPlasìn are specified and explained in our page on
Ways and Symbols.

Samples of the Sacred Geometry of Pythagoras and Plato
in the Notes area at the end of the page.

Do you want concrete examples of suggestions on how to
improve our civic environments? Our EthoPlasìn Suggestions Registry already
contains hundreds of them. Some are quite provocative, or drafted in a humoristic
way, and consequently could probably not be implemented exactly as formulated, but they can nevertheless serve as good
'food for thought' in terms of the problems they raise and the original elements
of solution they suggest. If you are interested, then go and navigate the
following Hot Series of 9
more pages where we have grouped many samples of these suggestions around 9
different subject themes:

For related issues that are, maybe, less "hot", but
nevertheless very warm to our heart, as a more rational selection and
package of
reforms that we are proposing as a long term objective, see our page on:

Many new terms are coined in this website. You should be able to find a definition of most of them in
the
EthoPlasìn Dictionary.

"EthoPlasìn"
is coined here as a brand new word that comes from the
loose combination of two Ancient Greek words: Ethos ('Ήθος', intended here
in its philosophical extension of 'Ethics') and Plasì ('Πλασις',
taken as 'formation', as in
'Διά-πλασις').
"Plasin" has also a connotation of 'plasma', in terms of a shapeable
substance, or substance giving form: 'Formation'. "Ethos" has a broader meaning extension than "Ethics". It also means a set
of beliefs and ideals that form the 'most valuable traits of character' of a person, a community, an
association or a nation. This new word in our context is intended to mean basically: "Formation to Ethics"
but also, by
free extension, "Educational Formation
to World Civic Wellness"
intended in its Pythagorean way.

In coining the word EthoPlasìn, we, by the same token, coin two more new
related words: "EthoCracy",
as a new form of DemoCracy, where the "EthoPlasìn Philosophical Discipline" becomes the seed and philosophical enlightenment
capable of generating a superior type of MeritoCracy,
meant to become an EthoCracy, not to mention a new world to come, and to long for,
from a World Civic Wellness point of view, wishfully and candidly called "EthoLandia".

The EthoPlasìn
Academy, or the
PythAcademia, is only the
university part of the global compound called Pythagorean World Center. As seen above, the Center
includes 12 components.

PythAcademia,
is the official short international name of the Academy, given in honor of Pythagoras and Plato.
It comes from the combination of the prefix 'Pyth' of
Pythagoras
with the word 'Academia', which was the name of the
later school of
Plato. The Academia School of Plato
followed the Hemicycle ("Omakoio") School of Pythagoras
by
some 150 years, but is much more well known in our western culture. However, Plato's
Academia was of clear Pythagorean descent and conception. It is the main line of
thinking
of these two greatest philosophers of Ancient-Greece, Pythagoras and Plato,
that the PythAcademia tries to emulate in what is often called the formation
of the "Pythagorean
Man" as opposed to the modern
"Faustian Man".

PythAssociation:
with the same logic that formed the name of the Academy (PythAcademia), the
name of the EthoPlasìn Association is PythAssociation.

ΕΠΑ,
with the Greek "Π",are the official initials of the
EthoPlasìn
Academy.

ΕΠΑcademia is
thus the short internal name of the EthoPlasìn Academy,
with the typical Greek "P" to often serve, in its list of symbols, as an image of the grand door of
entry into the decorous life-style it promotes.

ΕΠΑssociation is thus the short internal name of the
EthoPlasìn Association.

PhiloEcoSophy
(and thus also PhiloEcoSophical) is a new word being coined. Like
'Philosophy' means 'love of wisdom', 'PhiloEcoSophical' means 'loving wisdom
for ecological initiatives and purposes'. Contrary to the drastic 'green ecological'
movements, that are usually highly politicized, the philoecosophical
movement is not a "green" political movement, but rather a 'blue love' movement for
our beautiful blue Earth: love for beneficial ecological initiatives of good
common sense that shall benefit both citizens and the planet as a whole.

BeLovArium
was the name at the origin of the present EthoPlasìn website, the name by
which the project was first known, but it is really only the Foundation providing
the initial and long-term real-estate financing of the overall PythagorArium
(with its 12 components, as described in a previous section).

Civitas
has the meaning of good city life, or level of 'Civilization', intended by
extension as harmonious civil
life or civic environment.

SUMMARY - This EthoPlasìn website contains a lot of
information but for a brief overview of what EthoPlasìn is, reading the
first paragraph of the Mission Statement, and maybe the rest of this short
opening page, should be sufficient. In any case, there is a "Summary"
page of the overall project under the button of the same name at the top
right corner of this home page. However you also have links to many other pages with more information on various aspects of the
Academy: its Discipline, its Educational Philosophy, its Science Of Being,
its Components and its Facilities. The best way to read these extra pages is
following the descending structure of their presentation if the
tree-structure above. There is also a series of PDF
attachments mentioned just above.

The Sacred Geometry,
in its form of first prominence and fame, dates back
to Pythagoras. It was later elaborated in a more formal way by Plato, in his
work called Timaeus, on the basis of the research conducted by his disciple
Teetetus. At the beginning
of each section, you find one of the 5 basic geometric figures of the Sacred
Geometry called the Five Regular
Three-Dimensional Solids, or the Five Perfect Platonic Solids,
but in their two-dimensional Net View.
Their geometric view is shown to the right in a different order. In the order of the 5 sections
above, the first one is the Tetrahedron
(representing the element of Fire, with 4 equilateral faces). The second is the Octahedron
(representing Air, with 8 equilateral faces). The third one is the Hexahedron
(or Cube, representing Earth, with 6 square faces). The fourth one is the Icosahedron
(representing Water, with 20 equilateral faces). The Fifth one is the Dodecahedron
(representing the Aether, with 12 pentagonal faces, or the mysterious 'Fifth Element', what
EthoPlasìn calls CoPHLE). You can see a better representation of these
geometrical figures
in this PDF

Medieval Italian mathematician Fibonacci
discovered the special geometrical figure that he named the "Metatron
Cube" (called in honor of archangel Metatron, with a good 2D
drawing representation in the second figure of the previous Notes section,
up to the right). This "Cube"
integrates tightly all Five Perfect Platonic Solids in one single geometrical
figure, as shown below. Fibonacci was really called Leonardo Pisano
and lived in Pisa between 1170 and 1240. He was in great part responsible for the rebirth
of mathematics and geometry after a long period of decadence between the end
of the Greek Classical Period and the early Middle Ages. He is more well
known for his discovery of the so-called Fibonacci Numbers (or
Fibonacci Sequence: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89
... etc., where each new number is the sum of the two previous ones)
that, in the relation of each sequential two, progressively get closer and
closer to the famous proportion called the "Golden Ratio"
(or: 1.61803..., with an infinite number of decimals without any repeating
pattern) at the base of the Beauty attribute of all
naturally created things. This Golden Ratio, and its relation to Beauty,
have been at the heart of the Sacred Geometry since its Pythagorean
inception, and they are now eminently part of the EthoPlasìn concept of Kallos Beauty.

Sacred Geometry has been used in Ancient-Greece as an
introduction to the most advanced level of philosophy, called Metaphysics.
Its sister subject was Music. Mathematics, Music, Geometry and Cosmology
were the 4 great Liberal Arts of the Ancient Greek World. All where at the
base of the Pythagorean Formation 2500 years ago, and this is still the case
today with the EthoPlasìn
Academy. They express a
universal language founding the understanding of all the beauty and
harmony of the Universe, in all aspects of its reality, human, physical or otherwise. These
ancient arts, or
sciences, are thus also eminently at the base of the formation of the Pythagorean Man at the
EthoPlasìn Academy today. Their fundamental formation value is universal and
immutable, independently of space-time.

Metatron Cube =
Fire +
Earth
+ Air + Aether + Water

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Έρρωσθε και ευδαιμονείτε

!

(Erotically Pursue Philosophical Wisdom and Enjoy
Undisturbed Bliss!)

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